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This Blueberry Almond Coffee Cake has a soft crumb, melt-in-your-mouth almond streusel topping and juicy bursts of blueberry tang. If there was one cookbook that defined my childhood, it would be Jean Paré’s Muffins & More. The tattered, brown cookbook covered with old-fashioned photos and the bespectacled face of Ms. Paré herself was a mainstay in…

Fresh, sweet and tart concord grapes are made into the perfect fruit puree to top these creamy Concord Grape Cheesecake Bars. As someone who has never had a vegetable or fruit garden, I’ve never known the intense love and attachment that happens when you create a dish out of what you’ve harvested, such as these…

Minty and full of refreshing lime, these Ginger Beer Mojitos are a twist on the classic with a pleasant, sharp bite. Ginger ale was kind of a big thing in my house growing up. It was something we always had around. Thank to the intense doomsday-like stocking up of food and beverages that was a…

These Sky-High Shortbread Macaroon Bars are made of a tender, buttery shortbread base, with layers of coconut macaroon and a coat of dark chocolate. I’ve spoken about this in quite a few posts, but I’ll say it again: Food and family are always intertwined. Take these Sky-High Shortbread Macaroon Bars. If I saw these in…